When Setting the Path for mysql-client Installed via Homebrew on macOS, It Automatically Follows Version Changes

Shellscript(Bash/Zsh)
2023-01-25 09:13 (1 years ago) ytyng

When installing mysql-client via Homebrew, you typically add the bin directory to your PATH in .zprofile or .zshrc.

For example:

if [ -d /usr/local/Cellar/mysql-client/8.0.22/bin ]; then
  export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-client/8.0.22/bin:${PATH}
fi

However, this approach doesn't handle version changes well. To make the PATH setting adaptable to any version, you can use the following script:

for dir_name in $(ls -1 -r '/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-client'); do
    _path="/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-client/${dir_name}/bin"
    if [ -d "${_path}" ]; then
        export PATH=${_path}:${PATH}
        break
    fi
done

for dir_name in $(ls -1 -r '/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-client'); do
    _path="opt/homebrew/Cellar/mysql-client/${dir_name}/bin"
    if [ -d "${_path}" ]; then
        export PATH=${_path}:${PATH}
        break
    fi
done

This script iterates through the directories in /usr/local/Cellar/mysql-client and /opt/homebrew/Cellar/mysql-client, adding the first valid bin directory it finds to the PATH. This way, your PATH will automatically adjust to the installed version of mysql-client.

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